The Portland daily press., 1887-09-10
BENEATH SMILING SKIES.
The Maine Agricultural Society Cain
Ing on Its Debt.
Mem bers Talk About Passes and
ke-eIect Their Officers.
Departing sIghtseers Yesterday leave
$4,000 to See the Races.
Especial to the PRESS

Especial to the PREss]
LEWISTON, Sept 9.-The weather of today
was better for the trotters than was yester-
days. Although large crowd left on last
evenings train, Il, 900 assembled in the af-
ternoon to witness the races. Yesterday s
receipts were $s,0OO
The first of the racing was the fourth heat
between Lamont and Ticonic, the ..four-year-
olds, and resulted in an easy victory for Tic
onic. Ticonic also won the fifth and decisive
heat
2.40 CLAss-PURsE $500.
Eight horses came to the wire, out of "a
listed, in the following order: Rennie P, /;
Tommy, 2; Mischief. 3; d. P. A, 1; Fatinitza.
o; Offa, 6; Hillside, Z; Hercules, 8. All were
in excellent shape and braced down the track
in good style. Much interest was manifested
In this race because several of the horses had
had some pretty fierce tugs in previous races
of the week. Rennie p. took first place at
the start, with Tommy safe second, Mis-
chief was third at the quarter, and Hillside
was with him; the others were tagging In the
rear. Rennie p. had a length lead of Tom
my and ID. p. A. was good third. Tommy
began to gain coming down the home stretch
on Rennie p, and almost left him at the wire
where d. P. A. held third place in fine STYLE
Rennie p. came in ahead, followed by d. P.
A, Hillside, Offa, Mischief and Fatinitza
respectively. Tommy was set back by the
judges for running. Time, 235t
AT the first turn.in the second heat, six
horses were punched altogether, all fighting
for first place. which Rennie p. was bound
to hold. d. p. A. and Hillside gave her
hard push. This heat between Rennie, Fat
initza and ID. 2. A, was highly interesting
throughout. Score: Rennie, l. Fatinitza, !;
d. p. A., 3; Tommy, 1; Mischief, 8; Hillside,
6, and 0ffa 7. Time, 235.
Rennie p. took good lead in the next heat,
closely followed by Fatinitza, but the latter
made bad break and fell to the rear. During
the first quarter, Hillside and ID. p. A. were
side by side, with Tommy at their heels. At
the end of the first tquarter Hillside broke.
Rennie ?: continued to gain and distanced
the field six lengths. ID. P. A. and Tommy
were now neck and neck at the first half, try
ing for second place. Down the home stretch
came Rennie p, length ahead, d. p. A. and
Tommy with length between them in ID. p.
AS favor. Rennie 2. won the heat Score:
Rennle r, l; ID. T. A, 2; Tommy, 3; Hill
side, A.; Fatinitza, 5; Offa, 6. Rennie P. got
first money, ID. T. A. second, Fatinitza third,
and Hillside fourth. Time, 2.354.
FOR PAGERS, PURSE $780,
In the first heat Ned Whirlwind was first,
Aral second, Dan Mace third, Dirigo Maid
fourth Aral is good PAGER; she struck to
the lead at the beginning, Dan Mace follow
ing. AT the quarter, Ned Whirlwind was
third, but soon after fell back to fourth.
They all tore down the stretch at the half,
Aral having three lengths lead. Then they
all strung out The race grew lively here
between Aral and Dirigo Maid, the later do
ing some splendid pacing-on the last quar-
ter gaining three lengths, coming in barely
beaten by Aral; Dan Mace third, and Whirl-
wind last. Time. 2.30.
The second heat was devoid of interest
after the start. The bay mare, Dirigo Maid,
had she not broke, would undoubtedly have
won. She filled up large gap several times,
only to break as she was about to pass Aral.
She took second place and Dan Mace third.
Time, 2.30.
In the third heat Aral stole first position.
Dirigo Maid and Dan Mace pressed her for
while but she soon had it all her own way,
and left the two latter horses in the dis
tance. She made her best time in this heat,
which was 2.2S3. Aral got first money. Dir
igo Maid second, and Dan Mace third.
FREE-FoR-ALL; PURSE, $4o0
There were but four horses in this race.
Stargazer. drew the pole, Tainter was sec
ond. Kate third and Maud l.. fourth. Scrib-
ner handled Kate, andi Record, who was
thrown yesterday, drove Tainter. Stargazer
Kate third, and Maud L. behind Tainter
went to pieces at the quarter and Maud L,
passed him, going to the side of the Buck
field horse. Stargazer struck out splendidly
on the last quarter, going by Kate. Star
gazer came in three lengths ahead, followed
by Kate. Maud l.. and Tainter respectively.
Time, 2.30l.
On the first turn of the next heat Stargazer
showed her heels to the others and fleety
Kate fell back to last place. Tainter pressed
Stargazer and brought him to break, pass
ing him before reaching the quarter. He fell
to the rear at the half and Tainter had the
lead by three lengths, but it was evident
that Stargazer's driver was only joking and
Immediately he spurred and climbed by
everything coming down the home stretch.
They came under the wire as follows: Star
gazer first, Tainter second, Kate third, and
Maud l.. fourth. Time, 2.30t.
The third heat of the free-for-all was one
OF the best OF the week. Stargazer broke,
and, as usual, fell to the rear. Tainter and
Maud l. made gallant fight for the lead at
the quarter. Here Maud l. broke and Taint-
erdrew away from her; but her possession of
this place lasted but an instant. Stargazer
remained in the rear by constantly breaking,
but made one of his phenomenal spurts. But
It was too late, however, to get there. On
the first half they came to the stand with
Tainter first, followed by Maud l., Kate and
Stargazer in the order named. As they drew
towards tie three-quarter pole Maud l.
spurted and passed Tainter, and the specta-
cheered Justify Record called upon Tainter,
who recovered and regained the lead. Again
Maud l. passed Tainter, who broke and
brought up the rear. In the meantime Star
gazer again did some handsome trotting,
passing the other horses and closing on
Maud l., whom he gave tight pull for first
place. Maud L., however, held her own and
came under the line length in front. Time
2.343.
The fourth heat was similar to the first.
Maud l. and Tainter (who broke twice. were
neck and neck during the whole course. Maud
l. trotted splendidly without making a
break and came sin about length ahead.
Time 2.324.
The fifth and deciding heat was the most
exciting of all and was was won honestly by
Maud L, Stargazer keeping by her side
throughout
The Annual Meeting.
The annual meeting Of the Maine State
Agricultural Society was held in the rink
Wednesday evening. There was an animated
discussion on the subject of life members
tickets and passes. Col. Jerrard, of the
ticket department, made the following state
ment:
have anticipated this inquiry to a certain
measure, and have prepared myself to answer it,
have with me list Of all the tickets issued by
me and am able to give quite definite statement
regarding them. The life members tickets,
issued this year, are 700, or to be exact 500.
Those life members represent at attendance of
1,1OO, reckoning three persons TO a ticket |
nave issued complimentary tickets as follows: To
the press 142 to railroads. 97 to Oficers of city
of Lewiston and other officials 4S; other parties
40. Besides these each officer of the society has
20 tickets. but think thew have haa usadv
sparingly for L know OF one or two of the officers
who have used but three or four of them These
are all the complimentary tickets issued. Besides
these there are 1900 exhibitors and heIners
They pay nothing but exhibition fees and have